New advancements in 3D designs for neural tissue engineering
It is well known that neurological diseases and injuries pose some of the greatest challenges in modern medicine, with few if any options for effectively treating such diagnoses, but recent work...
View ArticleStem cell disease model clarifies bone cancer trigger
Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a team led by Mount Sinai researchers has gained new insight into genetic changes that may turn a well known anti-cancer signaling gene into a driver of...
View ArticleA new tool for understanding ALS: Patients' brain cells
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have transformed skin cells from patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), into brain cells affected by the progressive, fatal...
View ArticleStem cell injection may soon reverse vision loss due to age-related macular...
An injection of stem cells into the eye may soon slow or reverse the effects of early-stage age-related macular degeneration, according to new research from scientists at Cedars-Sinai. Currently, there...
View ArticleLink between proteins points to possibilities for future Alzheimer's treatments
Researchers have found that the proteins that control the progression of Alzheimer's are linked in a pathway, and that drugs targeting this pathway may be a way of treating the disease, which affects...
View ArticleBioengineer takes an evolutionary approach to viral drug delivery vehicles
What do Washington lobbyists and gene therapy have in common? Success for both depends on access and influence.
View ArticleScientists find way to monitor progress of stem cells after transplantation...
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a way to monitor neural stem cells after they've been transplanted into the brain.
View ArticleRegenerative Medicine highlights the immunological challenges that lie ahead...
The journal Regenerative Medicine has published a special focus issue on methods to avoid immune rejection in regenerative medicine.
View ArticleNew hope in central nervous system injury
Winner of the Young Neurosurgeons Abstract Award, Abdullah H. Feroze, B.S., presented his abstract, entitled Neural Placode Tissue Derived from Myelomeningocele Repair Serves as a Viable Source of...
View ArticleScientists regenerate bone tissue using only proteins secreted by stem cells
Scientists have discovered a way to regrow bone tissue using the protein signals produced by stem cells. This technology could help treat victims who have experienced major trauma to a limb, like...
View ArticleTiny spheres of human cells mimic the brain, researchers say
The human brain is a highly organized, three-dimensional mass of cells responsible for our every move, thought and emotion. Snugly housed in the bony confines of the skull, it's also relatively...
View ArticleNetworking neurons thrive in 3-D human 'organoid'
A patient tormented by suicidal thoughts gives his psychiatrist a few strands of his hair. She derives stem cells from them to grow budding brain tissue harboring the secrets of his unique illness in a...
View ArticleTeam uses stem cell exosomes to induce damaged mouse hearts to self-repair
A little more than a decade ago, researchers discovered that all cells secrete tiny communications modules jammed with an entire work crew of messages for other cells. Today, a team of researchers, led...
View ArticleMolecular cause of heart condition identified
In 2012, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine showed that heart muscle cells made from the skin of people with a cardiac condition called dilated cardiomyopathy beat with less...
View ArticleDrug discovery for Parkinson's disease: Researchers grow neurons in 3-D
The progressive loss of neurons in the brain of Parkinson's patients is slow yet inexorable. So far, there are no drugs that can halt this insidious process. Researchers at the Luxembourg Centre for...
View ArticleNew stem cell research uncovers causes of spinal muscular atrophy
New research from the Advanced Gene and Cell Therapy Lab at Royal Holloway, University of London has used pioneering stem cell techniques to better understand why certain cells are more at risk of...
View ArticleNew measurements reveal differences between stem cells for treating retinal...
By growing two types of stem cells in a "3-D culture" and measuring their ability to produce retinal cells, a team lead by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers has found one cell type to...
View ArticleResearchers create model of early human heart development from stem cells
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells,...
View Article3-D printing process could help treat incurable diseases
A team of Binghamton University researchers are creating a 3-D printing process to build implantable tissues and organs to treat otherwise incurable diseases.
View ArticlePluripotent stem cells help ID method of treatment for inherited disease
Using pluripotent stem cells, researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have gained insight into an inherited pediatric...
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